…That last one is about as racist as it gets, but that brand of racist isn’t called racist in the woke component of American society. The sports world is a perfect microcosm of this. Blacks get away with saying whatever they want to say against whites, and McKay would argue that Obama is sitting in his self-appointed throne somewhere smoking a cigarette and smiling about it.
“From the Start, Based on Lies”
McKay writes in his Preface, “Patriotism itself is dying. 70% regarded it as a cherished virtue at the dawn of the 21st century but now, only 38% do, with no bottom in sight” (v). Indeed, perhaps this is so because of the topics McKay broaches in Chapter 2. Given how soft the mainstream media and Obama’s opponent were in the lead-up to the 2008 election, it would be easy to theorize that even more Americans tuned out of politics in the aftermath, since the Democrat darling was clearly going to get away with so much. Combine that with the advent of the IPhone and the explosion of different social media networks, and what you had was the genesis of a deterioration of American pride that Obama was, once again, more than willing to smile about.
In Chapter 2, McKay contends that the “best hope to save America as we knew it” (19) came in April of 2008, when a series of crises and calms revolving around Obama’s lifelong pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright began. Illustrating a back and forth dynamic of racism and betrayal, McKay shows the chilling ways Obama chose his political career over honesty and his friendship with Wright, lies the unsuspecting American public either knew but couldn’t do anything about or swallowed with apathy largely because the Mockingbird media let Obama completely off the hook.
Surely, if all of this was that bad, the media would let us know.
Surely.
…Barack Obama not only lied his way into office, he then lied his way through the next eight years. Indeed, the lies of Obama’s two terms–and those of the former vice president…over whom Obama and his lieutenants continue to exercise full control–have been like nothing we’ve ever seen. Theirs have been lies of staggering audacity, lies about the very character of America and its people, its history and its traditions. (McKay 32)
Racism, revenge and ruin.
Not only was this true in a general sense, but McKay also discusses in detail a very specific dog-and-pony show Obama delivered to the American people on March 18, 2018, when Team Obama finally confronted the skeletons in their candidate’s closet concerning Wright, a confrontation they always knew would have to happen. Sure, it was all a sham, but it was confrontation enough nonetheless to turn aside the doubters. It was a turning point in the campaign, in the election, in American history. The author’s explanation of this speech and how the media spun it to deceive Americans is absolute must reading considering the fact that so many people are finally waking up to the lies in the last few years since Covid (which Obama undoubtedly had at least a hand in). As I have consistently said lately, understanding recent history is perhaps the best way not to repeat it when opportunities to be more informed citizens come boomeranging back into the circle of opportunity.
It has been happening all year. “Covid” and “pandemic” fear porn has been leaking back into our collective subconscious, and the powers in the shadows have only a few months left to impact the 2024 Presidential Election.
Opportunities to be a patriot are coming.
In short, American revivalists must develop a better nose for the stench of such manipulation and dishonesty. And those that do have the nose must fight the information war with courage and diligence. Some folks saw right through Obama’s pretty words and pretty delivery as they were happening in 2008 and ever since, but still too many people were entranced by him, hypnotized like zombies like this fawning little girl in the video below, a disconcerting dynamic that will absolutely present itself again in our world–you can be assured of that.
If voters weren’t in fact entranced by Obama, perhaps they felt they had no other choice because of who the Republican candidate was. John McCain was the most uninspiring candidate–Republican or Democrat-I had ever witnessed and have since, until Joe Biden, of course. I remember thinking, at the time, how foolish McCain was for not spotlighting Obama’s past, a point McKay makes as well. Now that I and so many Americans know the reality of the Deep State, McCain’s involvement in it (consider the West’s coup in Ukraine in 2014 that has accelerated everything we are experiencing concerning Ukraine now), I am inclined to revise my own history and reconsider the real likelihood that McCain was a mere pawn in that 2008 election. It is not something McKay gets into because his thesis is on Obama, race and ruin, but it is beyond a reasonable doubt, now that we have the last fifteen years of information to consider, that the Deep State was going to have Barack Obama in that White House one way or another. The sheer (seeming) insanity of McCain’s omission should help us realize that he was getting his marching orders from somewhere on top. And those orders were not to bring the heat to Obama. Not to actually challenge for this vote at all.
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You are merely a placeholder to give Americans the illusion of choice anyway.
Take a look at this short clip of Obama from just before the 2016 election, talking about illegals’ right, dare I say obligation, to vote. It is a bit of an aside, but I did just come across it this morning and think it points to his vision of destroying the country, not to mention the cringey fawning of the young interviewer.
These are reflections of a writer and citizen who didn’t know a whole lot back in 2008, or 2016 for that matter, but knew enough to realize that something was off about McCain’s nauseating docility. I just didn’t have all the dots back then to understand what “Deep State” meant, and how extensive the puppet system was and is in the political world. McKay doesn’t address this in depth in the book, but his sincere examination of Reverend Jeremiah Wright is enough to whet the reader’s taste to go down memory lane themselves on some of these personal gut instincts they were feeling in 2008. This is the level of caring and personal responsibility it is going to take to reverse that 38% back toward 70%, a patriotism that McKay is so obviously trying to inspire in both this book and his RVIVR venture.
May everyone named directly or referenced indirectly ask forgiveness and do penance for their sins against America and God. I fight this information war in the spirit of justice and love for the innocent, but I have been reminded of the need for mercy and prayers for our enemies. I am a sinner in need of redemption as well after all, for my sins are many. In the words of Jesus Christ himself, Lord forgive us all, for we know not what we do.
Jeff LeJeune is the author of several books, writer for RVIVR, editor, master of English and avid historian, teacher and tutor, aspiring ghostwriter and podcaster, and creator of LeJeune Said. Visit his website at jefflejeune.com, where you can find a conglomerate of content.
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